Food safety advocates and public health watchdogs are warning of a “quiet but sweeping overhaul” in a decades-long radiation regulation that could increase radioactive isotopes in domestic agriculture ...

Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Tuesday made a filing with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing the agency’s proposed changes to radiation exposure limits that he said “threaten to put ...

A new congressionally mandated National Academies report is bringing renewed attention to those questions, recommending a more consistent approach to occupational radiation safety across the aviation ...

Remediation is often associated with nuclear legacy sites where radioactive materials were once produced, tested, processed, ...

Radioactive contamination mysteriously spread beyond a restricted laboratory at one of America's largest nuclear complexes, triggering alarms as three workers attempted to leave. Tests detected ...

A company that already recalled shrimp because of potential radioactive contamination has confirmed that it is expanding the recall to include more shrimp products processed by an Indonesian company.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NIAGARA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's on-scene coordinator overseeing the investigation into ...

Radioactive contamination is the unwanted or unintended presence of radioactive materials on a surface, or within a liquid or gas. Radioactive materials released into environment can cause air, water, ...

In the spring of 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine forced the evacuation ...

NASA's O/OREOS mission explored how Bacillus subtilis bacteria survive and grow in extreme radiation environments beyond ...